Hence, to answer the question of what the Bible says, there is no great advantage in deciding just which
biblical words do, and which do not, refer specifically to homosexuality.
Not exact matches
Almost all the stories surrounding Jesus (if he
did exist, some scholars say their is no proof of a historical Jesus) were borrowed from earlier myths and used
word for
word... as well as the rampant literary corruption and forgeries of
Biblical Texts... It is also impossible for God to exist in the Christian version or form they created.
Though the
words «porn» and «masturbation» don't appear in the Bible, Gyorke believes the
biblical verdict is clear.
Two comments.One, the atheist / materialist claims that he / she... «
Did «nt believe in free will»... O.K.Should we take that to mean some mindless, heretofore unknown force apllied those words in your behalf?Did someone put the proverbial «gun to your head «and force you to post your comments?we await you presumably forced answer with bated breath.Two.As for Mr.Gingrich, beware.Politics aside, the one question yet remains for Calista: How did you, a professed «devout «Roman Catholic, carry on a 6 - year affair with a man you knew was married?How does that square with the Biblical prohibition against committing adultery?Oh wait!I know!As a «devout «Roman Catholic you can sin with impunity; just go to your priest, say a couple of «hail Marys and Our Fathers», ask the priest to bless your sinning, and resume.Of course!I had forgetton how easily Catholics excuse their trangressions (ex opere operato, anyon
Did «nt believe in free will»... O.K.Should we take that to mean some mindless, heretofore unknown force apllied those
words in your behalf?
Did someone put the proverbial «gun to your head «and force you to post your comments?we await you presumably forced answer with bated breath.Two.As for Mr.Gingrich, beware.Politics aside, the one question yet remains for Calista: How did you, a professed «devout «Roman Catholic, carry on a 6 - year affair with a man you knew was married?How does that square with the Biblical prohibition against committing adultery?Oh wait!I know!As a «devout «Roman Catholic you can sin with impunity; just go to your priest, say a couple of «hail Marys and Our Fathers», ask the priest to bless your sinning, and resume.Of course!I had forgetton how easily Catholics excuse their trangressions (ex opere operato, anyon
Did someone put the proverbial «gun to your head «and force you to post your comments?we await you presumably forced answer with bated breath.Two.As for Mr.Gingrich, beware.Politics aside, the one question yet remains for Calista: How
did you, a professed «devout «Roman Catholic, carry on a 6 - year affair with a man you knew was married?How does that square with the Biblical prohibition against committing adultery?Oh wait!I know!As a «devout «Roman Catholic you can sin with impunity; just go to your priest, say a couple of «hail Marys and Our Fathers», ask the priest to bless your sinning, and resume.Of course!I had forgetton how easily Catholics excuse their trangressions (ex opere operato, anyon
did you, a professed «devout «Roman Catholic, carry on a 6 - year affair with a man you knew was married?How
does that square with the
Biblical prohibition against committing adultery?Oh wait!I know!As a «devout «Roman Catholic you can sin with impunity; just go to your priest, say a couple of «hail Marys and Our Fathers», ask the priest to bless your sinning, and resume.Of course!I had forgetton how easily Catholics excuse their trangressions (ex opere operato, anyone).
Ahh...
did I mention «
Biblical Law» or is your mind placing
words on the screen that are not really there
The
biblical word says the government shall rest on his shoulders, which means that the love, respect and kindness the bible breathes i life should always serve as inspiration for our laws, Which indeed it
does in every major democracy.
What
Biblical basis
do you have to refute the plainly
worded verses contained in Scripture that homosexuality is a sin?
Doing a New Testament
word study on the Greek
word «praus» in order to better understand what Peter means when he instructs women to have a «gentle and quiet spirit» in 1 Peter 3:3 - 4 is
biblical exegesis.
On the Council on
Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Web Site, Wayne Grudem warns that if Christians accept egalitarianism, «we will begin to have whole churches who no longer «tremble» at the
Word of God (Isaiah 66:2), and who no longer live by «every word that comes from the mouth of God» (Matthew 4:4), but who pick and choose the things they like and the things they don't like in the Bible.&ra
Word of God (Isaiah 66:2), and who no longer live by «every
word that comes from the mouth of God» (Matthew 4:4), but who pick and choose the things they like and the things they don't like in the Bible.&ra
word that comes from the mouth of God» (Matthew 4:4), but who pick and choose the things they like and the things they don't like in the Bible.»
Well then, perhaps you could give your definitions for the theological /
biblical terms you cited above plus any other necessary terms that you didn't cite (i.e., your definition in distinction to the Calvinist / Arminian definitions of those
words)?
But the
Biblical literalist can not
do this, and has to insist that the
words of Joshua and Elijah, Ecclesiastes and Job, are as true as anything Jesus said, and therefore presumably just as important.
I don't go around
doing word searches in places where I disagree with the Bible while refraining from
doing word searches where
biblical teachings are convenient to me.
My first point registers the conviction that the primary hermeneutical principle arises from the decision how to approach the
biblical text, whether to view it as I
do as God's written
Word or to see it in a reduced mode such as is common today.
But if we don't want to call it sin, then we will begin dismantling the
biblical word (should God really have said?)
It is as if the Queen has genuinely internalised the
biblical truth that «whatever [we]
do, whether in
word or deed,
do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus» (Colossians 3:17).
The only thing that bugs me about this guy is that there are more people than not who are teetering on the brink of faith in Jesus, and all this guy
does is try to knock people away from faith... This is his
word against Gods
word, I've been reading these articles they've been posting, and nothing he's said has any
biblical foundation whatsoever...
In this respect, contemporary «materialism» (if that is the right
word here) is much more in accordance with the
biblical presentation, in which God
does not deny or negate the creation but affirms it, identifies himself with it, and acts within it.
The reason I say that is that he can not have ANY conversation where he
does not stop lecturing of the virtues of catholicism or boring me to death with the meaning of «
biblical words».
A positive
Biblical scholarship can
do much toward learning the context, literary genre, and purpose of each portion of God's
Word.
In Chapter 2, Smith delves more deeply into the extent and source of pervasive interpretive pluralism, and in
doing so, he tackles what has been a pet peeve of mine for many years — the misuse of the
word «
biblical.»
How
do we allow the Bible to inform and guide us while remaining cognizant of our tendency to be selective and without abusing the
word «
biblical»?
Now that the author has seemingly
done damage to the integrity of the
biblical text to the point that we can apparently know nothing more, or
do nothing more, than feel our way around in the dark never being certain of what God's Holy
Word says I ask this question:
The fall of Adam and Eve, the covenants with Israel and its deliverance from bondage, its falling away and punishment through new sufferings, the speaking of the divine
word through the prophets, the birth of Christ in human flesh, the life and death of Jesus, the experience of the resurrection, and the history of the Church, the expectation of the final events and the established reign of God in love and peace — all this is the
Biblical understanding of what God has
done, is
doing, and will continue to
do for the judgment and redemption of the world.
When I first mentioned that I'd been asked by my publisher to take the
word «vagina» out of my manuscript for A Year of
Biblical Womanhood in deference to the general preferences of Christian bookstores, I never expected you guys to care, much less
do something about it.
My experiences of God's love were very clear to me, and I simply assumed, as
did most
biblical writers, that God's love had been made abundantly clear in the miracles of the Exodus, the
words of the prophets, the work of Christ.
When Evangelicals claim adultery as
biblical grounds for divorce, they not only put
words into Jesus's mouth that the Gospels
do not record him as actually saying, but they mutilate the essence of the uniqueness of the Christian witness to marriage.
When Paul says that «all Scripture is inspired by God» (2 Tim 3:16), he doesn't mean that the
biblical writers received God's
word while rolling around in some trance, totally unaware of what was going on.
This is such a truism that one is almost ashamed to pen the
words, and yet it remains a fact that, in a great deal of the more conservative
biblical scholarship, it
does seem to be assumed that the appeal to factual accuracy would he as valid and important a factor in the case of ancient Near Eastern religious texts as it would be in a modern western court of law or in a somewhat literally - minded western congregation.
Which I
did, and you replied with, «If you're questioning the
word «supposed», I'm simply expressing that
Biblical record is not accepted as inherently accurate.
little topher, you didn't provide the EXACT
BIBLICAL scripture that defines traditional marriage using those very
words, so your opinion is a bit useless.
don't put
words in my mouth... as for your description... its not
Biblical and based o0ut of ignorance..
Or, if you don't want to get tapes, just tune your radio to a station with lots of
biblical preaching on it, especially if the most of the sermons are verse by verse teaching of the
Word of God.
«That said, if the churches
do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other
words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching
biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.
It is the type of Christian who would rather talk about doctrine, theology, and the meanings of various
biblical words and passages without ever actually
doing anything.
You don't have to be in front of everyone saying poetic
words of
biblical wisdom to each request.
When a Lutheran and a Catholic each talk of faith,
does each define the
word by some comprehensive abstract system, or by the complex associations the
word has in a great range of shared
biblical texts, such as Romans 1 with its talk of faith as that by which we live, I Corinthians 13 with its association of faith with hope and love, and Hebrews 11 with its definition of faith as assurance and conviction?
You speak about a kind of listening to the
Word that
does not require advanced
biblical criticism.
It's just that the
word doesn't mean what it means in the
biblical tradition.
What
do we
do about using the
word «
biblical»?
In other
words, though the Doctrine of Inspiration is logical, it
does not seem to be
biblical.
The Navarre Bible, that wonderful commentary which has
done so much to seed the wasteland of contemporary
Biblical scholarship, refers in connection with the passage I quoted from Matthew (9:36) to
words of St Margaret Mary Alacoque: «This Divine Heart is a great abyss which holds all good, and he commands that all his poor people should pour their needs into it.
And at this climax, Lamentations embraces
words that have continued to bring incalculable solace to persons in all branches of
biblical faith in all time: Yahweh will not cast off for ever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love (hesed); for he
does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
Do you know the prebilical and
biblical meaning of the
word «god»?
The
biblical text
does not use the omni
words — obviously.
It is true that there is no
word for though in the original, but that is because
biblical Hebrew doesn't use such
words.
In the
words of one older Catholic
biblical scholar to this writer, «But
did Paul have any ethics?»
I had parts of Gods
biblical word supernaturally revealed to me in dreams before I read it, I was dreaming about things i didn't know about that were from the bible.
I have in my life time attended many churches and I
do know tyhe
biblical meaning of the
word, but in the «christian» world there are so many factions and every one of them believing that they hold a corner on the truth!
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Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering
Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's
Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
And this man, who had gone around the world once, and was going to marry Emma Wedgwood,
did not believe a single
word of the
biblical story of creation.